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Wells of Living Water Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-14

What Is Good in This Life Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 ; Ecclesiastes 3:1-14 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We come now to the second great question in the Book of Ecclesiastes. It is expressed in chapters 6 and 12: "Who knoweth what is good for man in this life?" The same question is asked in several other Scriptures. We have considered Solomon's conclusions about the labors of this life, and now we are to consider more of his conclusions as to the pleasures of this life. Here is a theme that should grip every... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:11

A BEAUTIFUL WORLD He hath made every thing beautiful in His time.’ Ecclesiastes 3:11 I. This truth becomes more manifestly true in things in proportion as their nature rises.—Everything in the world must be in its true place and time, or it is not beautiful. That is true from the lowest to the highest, only with the lowest it is not easy to discover it. II. All the events of life, all of God’s dispensations, get their real beauty or ugliness from the times in which they come to us or in which... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:11-15

God has Given Man a Conception of Everlastingness. Here he provides something extra to what God has given men to do. While man has to work so hard, nevertheless God has made everything beautiful in its time (‘God saw everything that he had made and behold it was very good’ - Genesis 1:29). And at the same time God has set everlastingness in man’s heart (‘God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him’ - Genesis 1:27). But it has been done in such a way that man is unable... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:1-15

Ecclesiastes 3:1-Ezra : . From one point of view this section may be entitled In Praise of Opportunism, from another Human Helplessness. Every action in which man can engage has its allotted season, but who can be sure that he has found this season? God’ s plan can be known only in part, hence man’ s efforts to succeed are always liable to fail; nothing remains but to enjoy the present. Ecclesiastes 3:1 . purpose: read “ business” or “ affair.” In the Heb. the antitheses that follow are in... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:11

He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: this seems to be added as an apology for God’s providence, notwithstanding all the contrary events and confusions which are in the world. He (i.e. God, expressed in the last clause of the verse) hath made (or doth make or do, by his providence in the government of the world) every thing (which he doth either immediately, or by the ministry of men or other creatures, for God worketh in and with all his creatures in all their actions, as is agreed... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:9-11

CRITICAL NOTES.—Ecclesiastes 3:11. In His time.] This is the emphatic part of the sentence. The fitting time is one of the chief elements in the ways of Providence, which raises in us the thought of an Infinite Wisdom. Also He hath set the world in their heart. The world here should be rendered eternity—i.e., the universe considered as duration—as that which is extended in time. It is because man has eternity in his heart that he is able, from the observation of Creation, to form an idea of... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-15

Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 I. Not only has God made everything, but there is a beauty in this arrangement where all is fortuitous to us, but all is fixed by Him. "He hath made everything beautiful in its time," and that season must be beautiful which to infinite love and wisdom seems the best. "Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the creation;" and, so to speak, each day that dawns, though its dawning include an earthquake, a battle, or a deluge each day that dawns, however many it... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Ecclesiastes 3:1-5:20 A profound gloom rests on the second act or section of this drama. It teaches us that we are helpless in the iron grip of laws which we had no voice in making; that we often lie at the mercy of men whose mercy is but a caprice; that in our origin and end, in body and spirit, in faculty and prospect, in our lives and pleasures, we are no better than the beasts that perish; that the avocations into which we plunge, amid which we seek to forget our sad estate, spring from our... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:11

Ecclesiastes 3:11 The word rendered "world" is a very frequent one in the Old Testament, and never has but one meaning; and that meaning is eternity. "He hath set eternity in their heart." Here are two antagonistic facts. There are transient things, a vicissitude which moves within natural limits, temporary events which are beautiful in their season; but there is also the contrasted fact that the man who is thus tossed about, as by some great battledore, wielded by giant powers in mockery, from... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Chapter 3Now we get into the weary, monotony of life. This has been used poetically as something that is very beautiful. "A time to love," and it's been made very beautiful, but in the Hebrew idea, it was monotony. Life is just monotonous.There is a time and a season, a time and a purpose under heaven to everything: there is a time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, a time to heal; a time to break down, a time to build up; a... read more

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